Merchants in the US and UK have reported strong sales for the recently released Opus One 2014 vintage, priced at around £2,500 per 12-bottle case in bond – or £250 per single bottle in the UK and just over $300-a-bottle in the US at the time of writing*.

Liv-ex calculated that the price made it the cheapest of the last 10 Opus One vintages being traded on its platform, in the sterling currency.

Decanter’s William Kelley rated the 2014 wine at 93 points, versus 94 for the lauded 2013.

‘It’s quite a serious, savoury Opus which will need a few years in the cellar to unwind,’ said Kelley of the 2014 vintage, advising a drinking window of 2020 to 2037.